Posts by Merrie Reagan
Good Wishes Coach Belichick
Good wishes Bill Belichick By Merrie H. Reagan Seventy-three-year-old former six-time Super Bowl winning, New England Patriots head coach, Bill Belichick, became the head coach of the University of North Carolina in December of 2024. During a recent press conference, he said that he is enthusiastic about UNC upcoming football season, commenting that UNC football…
Read MoreExcerpt from Chapter Four-Life Flashes A Memoir
Chapter Four-Life Flashes: A Memoir READING, THE BUCKET LIST, SOUL FAMILY, THEFT Tuesday, January 1, 2008 Good morning. Happy New Year. I have finished reading a biography of actor Jimmy Stewart (1908-1997). The acting career of Mr. Stewart spanned nearly seventy years. Jimmy is viewed as having handled professional as well as personal matters with…
Read MoreFrom Life Flashes: A Memoir-For Fun
Thursday, August 16, 2007 Jack McGill, who recently employed me as a part-time mortgage business administrative assistant, received a hilarious email today entitled, Bad Hallmark Cards. He sent me a copy of the email, while we were working together. One card message stated, “You brought me back into religion; I stopped believing in Hell—until I…
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Read MoreReview of The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Giver, by Lois Lowry, published in 1993, entails lives of persons living in an artificially utopian futuristic community founded on Sameness, which includes strict adherence of community rules, allowance of solely superficial thoughts and feelings, no recognition of Transcendence, and at some point “releasing” a person or persons from the community when said person…
Read MoreChapter Two-Reflecting and Reconnecting-First Boy/Girl Relationship in High School
Sunday, May 27, 2007 This morning, I visited French Memories, a café, located in Cohasset Village. Shortly after sitting down on a chair facing a small table here, I observed my brother, Jared, and Elissa, the wife of Jared, and their three children. All were entering the charming, small bakery and bistro. Having ended residing…
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Interview with Cohasset 143 TV
Read MoreChapter Two-Reflecting and Reconnecting-New friend and Teenage Lingo
Sunday, May 27, 2007 Chapter Two-Reflecting and Reconnecting-New friend and “Teenage Lingo” Brielle Morgan was a Campbell family babysitter, as was I. Brielle and I met at Cohasset High School in September of 1967, on the first day that school was in session; we were then ninth-grade students. Morgan family began residing in Cohasset prior…
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 This evening, Emmanuel College, located in Boston, Massachusetts hosted a previously advertised lecture event. I graduated from Emmanuel College in May 1975, four years after I graduated from high school. Before attending the scheduled lecture in the library auditorium, I entered Cardinal Cushing Library, located on the college campus. Being here…
Read MoreLife Flashes: A Memoir Excerpt Chapter One: Awakening
LIFE FLASHES: A MEMOIR CHAPTER ONE-AWAKENING January 1, 2007 Donning a white turtleneck jersey, black pants, and light orange, waist-length spring jacket, I stepped outside an apartment I am sharing in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Winter morning darkness surrounded me. The time was 5:00 a.m. Having experienced many years of job dissatisfaction, having drifted from job to…
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